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Mon Sep 13 07:28:00 GMT 1999

> Date: 1999年9月13日 10:27:58 -0400
> From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com>
>> Andrew Haley wrote:
> > 
> > > Date: 1999年9月13日 10:15:28 -0400
> > > From: Jeff Sturm <jsturm@sigma6.com>
> > > > Okay, I admit this won't work on the benighted systems where the
> > > > environment really is global.
> > >
> > > Are there really any systems that work that way?
> > 
> > Yes, I think so. I'll give you one guess...
>> Maybe I'm missing the obvious... even MS-DOS copied the environment
> block for each child process.

Perhaps my memory is faulty. I seem to remember that if a child
process set an enviroment variable and exited, the variable was still
set. However, it was a long time ago.
Andrew.